The 1221 report on your ISPRIV is what counts, as that's the amount of whitespace in the database.
Are you running Mailbox Manager on the server? We use it to purge old "Deleted Items" and "Journal" entries, and it helps a lot. Configuring Outlook / office not to journal helps too, if you don't need it. What sort of deleted item retention period do you have? Cheers, Phil --------------------------------------------- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK > -----Original Message----- > From: Tener, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 13 September 2002 14:05 > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Revisiting offline defrag question > > > Hello all, > > > I would like to ask everyone's suggestions, I > asked about > offline defrag a couple days ago and many of you were very > helpful. Thanks > for all your great information. I have exchange 5.5 sp4 > running on windows > nt srv sp6a and my secondary partition where the exchange database is > located is approximately 12.9gig in total size. I have 1.98 > gigs of space > left on this drive and it is diminishing very quickly about > 200mb a week. > The priv.edb file is 8,791,048 in size and the pub.edb is > 946,184 in size. > Recently I have archived alot of emails from peoples > mailboxes, a few gigs > at least. Also in the past other people have left our > company and I deleted > their mailboxes which were pretty big usually close to 1 gig > in size. Since > I have done alot of deleting I haven't really noticed any > space on this > secondary partition freed up. So last night I archived about > 1.5gigs of > email and came in today and noticed that I haven't gained any > space back on > this partition. In the event viewer it shows this about my > online defrag > report. > > The database has 53 megabytes of free space after online > defragment has > terminated event 1221. > > Event 1207: cleanup of items past retention date for Item Recovery is > complete > Start: 20843 items; 445797 Kbytes > end: 20742 items; 445487 Kbytes > > From the info above would anyone consider doing an offline > defragment of the > exchange database? I have never done this before and would like your > suggestions, thanks very much for your time. > > RGDS > Rich > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
